Michael N

I’m old enough to remember when the GOP was the party of limited government.

I’m reminded that back in 1400, Chaucer describes the lawyer as being extraordinarily busy — but, Chaucer being the wit, he can’t help but note that although he’s very busy he’s still not quite as busy as he seems (I’m NOT saying you’re not, I just always enjoy the little dig at our profession 😁).

This is unfair. Our material is fact and story and law and logic. We’re trying to convince someone that our position is fair, or right, or better supported by authority — at best all three at once.

I agree. Editing other people’s legal work is either stylistic nits or total rewrite (often re-research as well). I can’t seem to find a middle ground, ever. That’s why I vastly prefer to do my own writing.

Love my kids (24, 21, 17) more than anything, would gladly take a bullet for any one of them, and they were very cute as babies and toddlers, but I do NOT yearn for a return to those days. That’s a genuinely hard time. It gets easier.

I need to complete my CLE’s by March 30. I woke up and couldn’t fall back asleep last night, so I listened to a CLE that told me lawyers need to get better sleep.

I’ve done that, but rarely, rarely. The counterargument needs to be airtight. Otherwise, I’d just be ready to address it at the hearing if the judge brings it up.

Explains the empty pair of shoes I saw on the sidewalk.

No argument! But I actually came here to say how delighted I am to see you’ve recorded the early John Le Carre oeuvre. I know the Smiley series very well. I just finished listening to Tinker Tailor (wonderful), and am looking forward to listening to the rest of the series!

Boom! Congratulations 🎉🍾

No argument on Bach. The Art of Fugue, Well Tempered Clavier and St. Matthew Passion will always be the high point of artistic and spiritual achievement to me.

But I still deeply love Chopin, Brahms, Bruckner and Mahler. And Machaut, Josquin, Ockeghem and Monteverdi for that matter

I see. So are you more of a Brahms/Schumann fan, or is even that too much? When I was young, I worked at a cafe/classical CD shop where the owner found anything post-Mozart distasteful, and preferred if the PA system was limited to baroque. I got a talking-to for putting Brahms on. 😂

Which part is not your thing? Mahler, or Rattle, or the 4th in particular?

Interesting, but who’s ever heard of something like that. It’s like we’d be exercising a kind of power by sending aid — but it wouldn’t be a hard kind of power, it would be *not* hard power. I don’t know what word I’m looking for.

a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk with his hands folded ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk with his hands folded

They are talking to one guy — one guy who cannot believe his own luck.

I’ve just started it too. It’s like someone resurrected Philip K. Dick and made him write a show for Apple TV. Impressive.

lol. No argument there.

Only thing I have to say is I’ve grown to like the current crop of near beers. Really very much improved.

First of all, NA beers have gotten a lot better. Second, a good mocktail, something lemony, spiced with ginger, mint, or jalapeño (or all three), can actually be independently good.

Yeesh. Just glad no one died. Enough airplane accidents.

Ketamine makes you look like a fallen hobbit?

Patrick Tull was a magnificent narrator. Try his narration of Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin series (ie, Master and Commander, and the 19 books that followed). So good.

True.

This is strange because Schiller’s poem contains the universalist line “All people become brothers,” and because Beethoven himself, (an enlightenment era liberal) hated autocracy, rejected Napoleon when he had himself crowned emperor, and would no doubt have despised modern fascism.

I find I have to gently prod the eggs with my finger from time to time to gauge their doneness when I poach. Yes the water is boiling, but perfect eggs are worth any discomfort.

That and invading Russia.

Had Roosevelt been capable of willing Hitler to do anything it would have been to declare war on the US. Completely solved his strategic and political problem by doing that.

I agree that’s insane. But in the hierarchy of insane things happening right now, that’s barely in the top 50%.

I guessed 35 before checking just now. Huh.

He’s very good. Certainly gloomy. Shostakovich on an overcast day.

How do you feel about Mieczysław Weinberg?